iPhone web applications and specific input types

Question

I remember seeing a tutorial a while back on this but am unable to re-Google it.

Supposedly there is a way to get Safari on the iPhone to give keyboards other than the default. It went something along the lines of this, where certain keywords in the input name attribute triggered it...

This would give the default keyboard:

<input type="text" name="normal_text" />

This would give the number entry keyboard:

<input type="text" name="blah_blah_zip" />

This would give the number entry keyboard:

<input type="text" name="blah_blah_email" />

Does anyone know if this is still an available feature, and if so, what the keywords for triggering it are? Thanks!

Answer 1

This used to be the case, but the functionality was removed in iPhone OS 2.0. There currently is no way to force Mobile Safari to use a specific keyboard.

Answer 2

The Safari for iPhone How-To's indicate this is still possible with a different syntax.

Text: <input type="text" /> <!-- display a standard keyboard -->
Telephone: <input type="tel" /> <!-- display a telephone keypad -->
URL: <input type="url" /> <!-- display a URL keyboard -->
Email: <input type="email" /> <!-- display an email keyboard -->
Zip Code: <input type="text" pattern="[0-9]*" /> <!-- display a numeric keyboard -->

Answer 3

On 3GS the mobile safari does display the specific keyboard based on answer 2